Tickets for Godzilla Minus Zero went on sale on October 6

Toho and GKIDS have put tickets for Godzilla Minus Zero on sale and confirmed two release dates. A post on the official Godzilla site dated October 6, 2026 announces the on-sale, a Godzilla Day IMAX Early Access on November 3, and a theatrical wide release on premium and standard formats starting November 6.

The official ticketing page linked from godzilla.com lists showtimes from November 3 through November 19 for the location it detects, with a separate filter for Early Access Screenings and Subtitled labels on several listings. It works as a showtime finder rather than a seller: theaters appear by distance, each listing links out, and the page title carries the November 6 date. No prices appear on it.

The date depends on the territory. Japan gets the film on November 3. North America gets an IMAX Early Access that day and a wide release on November 6.

November 3 does two jobs this year

Godzilla Day is November 3, the date the first Godzilla film reached Japanese theaters in 1954, as the official site's own Godzilla Day posts describe it. In 2026 the date also carries the film's Japanese opening, handled by Toho.

In the United States, November 3 is the IMAX Early Access. The October 6 post calls those screenings exclusive, and a second post dated October 11, published after the film's New York Comic Con panel, says the Godzilla Day IMAX Early Access screenings will open nationwide on November 3 while standard formats, Dolby Cinema, 4DX, D-BOX and other Premium Large Formats start in theaters on November 6.

Toho also calls Godzilla Minus Zero the first Japanese production Filmed For IMAX.

Neither post says whether the November 3 early access extends beyond the United States. The global schedule lists Canada under November 6, and Japan opens on November 3 under Toho.

Which countries get the film, and when

The site keeps a global release schedule, dated July 9, 2026, that assigns a date to each territory.

The second group arrives November 4 in Belgium, France, Indonesia, Laos, Luxembourg, the Philippines and Thailand. More territories are listed for November 5 than for any other date, among them Australia, Brazil, Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Singapore, Switzerland, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Denmark, Greece, Hungary, Malaysia and the Czech Republic.

November 6 adds Canada, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States, alongside Austria, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Poland, South Africa and Vietnam. Italy waits until November 12. The last group on the page, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, opens November 20.

The schedule does not mark which of those dates are wide releases and which are previews, and it does not give theater counts for any territory.

A six-marker timeline shows NOV 3 at the first endpoint and NOV 20 at the last.
Concept summary of the published territory schedule: Japan is listed for November 3 and the final group for November 20; intermediate release groups fall on November 4, 5, 6 and 12. The dots are date milestones, not daily releases or country locations.

What the November 6 showtimes add

The wide release brings the other premium presentations three days after the IMAX early access.

The film's first public screening in the United States was the Spotlight Gala slot at the 64th New York Film Festival on September 26. Its UK premiere is set for the BFI London Film Festival on October 14, a little over three weeks before the British release date of November 6.

A separate official post says limited edition concessions for the film reach nearly 3,000 theaters in the United States and Canada starting October 7. The merchandise goes on sale a month before the film opens.

Alongside the ticket sales, the site has published a first theatrical trailer and poster, a behind-the-scenes clip, and on October 11 a new trailer shown at the film's New York Comic Con panel earlier that day.

The cast and the 1949 setting

Godzilla Minus Zero picks up in 1949, two years after the events of Godzilla Minus One, and continues the story of the Shikishima family, according to a July 9 post that introduced the cast.

Ryunosuke Kamiki returns as Koichi Shikishima and Minami Hamabe as Noriko Shikishima. The same post names a new character, Kanji Murakami, a biologist carrying what it calls deep psychological scars from the war, played by Min Tanaka.

Five more actors from the earlier film return. Hidetaka Yoshioka plays Kenji Noda, now director of the Disaster Response Bureau. Yuki Yamada returns as Shiro Mizushima and Kuranosuke Sasaki as Seiji Akitsu. Sakura Ando plays Sumiko Ota, who runs a local orphanage in the new film, and Miou Tanaka returns as Tatsuo Hotta.

Takashi Yamazaki returns as director, screenwriter and head of visual effects, the work that won him an Academy Award for Godzilla Minus One. The film's own page describes that earlier film as the third highest grossing live action foreign language release in United States box office history, with more than $57 million there.

The October 11 trailer post adds one line of dialogue from the new trailer, spoken by Dr. Ogata, played by Jun Kunimura: "I can say for certain. That patient…she had no business surviving."

Unpublished: runtime, prices and screen counts

Toho has not published a runtime or ticket prices.

Neither announcement says how many IMAX locations will run the November 3 screenings. The schedule does not explain how the Japanese opening relates to the American early access.

No streaming, digital or home release date appears on the official pages. The schedule also leaves the November 5 group open on one point: it does not say whether those territories open everywhere at once or start with previews.